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Daniel Halperin has published several papers on circumcision for HIV prevention,<ref>{{cite webREFweb | last=PubMed | first=NCBI | year= | title=Daniel Halperin circumcision | url = http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed?term=Daniel%20Halperin%20circumcision | title = Daniel Halperin circumcision | accessdate = 2011-04-29 | work = NCBI | publisher = PubMed}}</ref> which are being used by the [[World Health Organization]] to endorse circumcision as an HIV prevention method. In November 1999, colleagues Daniel Halperin and [[Robert C. Bailey]] published an article in the Lancet criticizing the public-health community for not pushing circumcision. Today, Halperin is the Senior Research Scientist at the Harvard AIDS Prevention Research Project.<ref> {{cite web REFweb | last=Halperin | first=Daniel | year= | title=AIDS Prevntion Research Project | url = http://www.newparadigmfund.org/daniel-halperin.html | title accessdate= AIDS Prevntion Research Project | last = Halperin | first = Daniel}}</ref>

Halperin is a member of [[Circlist]],<ref>Halperin, D. (2006, April 22). ''RE: My recent circ pubs'' [Online Forum Comment]. Retrieved from http://health.groups.yahoo.com/group/MCIRC/message/16 Archive: http://circleaks.org/images/1/1f/MCIRC_-_Msg_16.pdf</ref> and a proud promoter of the group.<ref>{{cite webREFwebQuote | url quote= httpDo you know of any pro-circumcision sites? Dr. Halperin I know of several://www[.circumcisioninformation.com/halperin_inverview1.htm]circlist | last= | first= | publisher=Chat Transcript | year= | title urltitle= The Great Circumcision Debate with Daniel Halperin, PhD | url=http://www.circumcisioninformation.com/halperin_inverview1.htm | accessdate = 2011-05-07 | work = Chat Transcript | quote = Do you know of any pro-circumcision sites? Dr. Halperin I know of several: [...]circlist}}</ref> Halperin's home office is only a stone's throw from the office of [[Edgar J. Schoen]] (leading pro-circumcision advocate).<ref name="Case for Circ"/>

- His grandthather grandfather was a Mohel, born in Russia, died in Chicago. "I don't have an agenda about foreskins" said Halperin in an interview for the Eastbay Express. When asked if being Jewish affects his [[Bias|pro-circumcision bias]], he denied it, but said that his Judaism has "crept in now and then". He explains, "think of it as maybe a kind of health/cultural innovation ahead of it's time. So it's made me appreciate my own heritage more. And who knows, maybe finding out to my surprise that my own granddad was a Mohel was a weird kind of confirmation that I'm maybe in some small way 'destined' to help pass along this health benefit to people in parts of the world where it could really make a difference and perhaps save many lives." <ref name="Case for Circ"> - {{cite journal REFjournal | last=Slack | first=Gordy | coauthors= | pubyear=2000-05- 19 | title = The Case For Circumcision - | journal = Express Online - | date = 2000-05-19 - | first volume= Gordy - | last issue= Slack - | id pages= - | url = http://circleaks.org/images/3/32/Edgar_Schoen_%26_Daniel_Halperin_%281999-2000%29.pdf - | accessdate=}} - </ref>

In an interview, Daniel Halperin cites [[Vernon G. Quaintance|Vernon Quaintance]], [[Brian J. Morris|Brian Morris]] and [[Circlist]] as credible resources in favor of circumcision.<ref>{{cite webREFwebQuote | url quote= httpDo you know of any pro-circumcision sites? Dr. Halperin I know of several://www[.circumcisioninformation.com/halperin_inverview1.htm]circlist | last= | first= | publisher=Chat Transcript | year= | title urltitle= The Great Circumcision Debate with Daniel Halperin, PhD | url=http://www.circumcisioninformation.com/halperin_inverview1.htm | accessdate = 2011-05-07}}</ref> It is important to note that Quaintance and Morris are both proud members and promoters of [[Gilgal Society]] and [[Circlist]], which openly admit to a morbid fascination with circumcision to the point of sado-masochistic fetish. Morris has included CircList as a resource in a recent paper,<ref>{{REFjournal | last=Morris | first=Brian J. | coauthors=Chris Eley | work pubyear= Chat Transcript2011-08 | quote title= Do you know Male Circumcision: An Appraisal of any proCurrent Instrumentation | journal=InTech | volume= | issue= | pages=1-40 | url=http://www.intechopen.com/articles/show/title/male-circumcision sites? Dr-an-appraisal-of-current-instrumentation | accessdate=2011-09-17}}</ref> and Quaintance is both the head of [[Gilgal Society]], and head moderator at [[Circlist]]. [[Vernon G. Quaintance|Vernon Quaintance]] was recently arrested for child pornography. Halperin I know of several<ref name="pedophile">{{REFweb | last=Croydon Advertiser | first= | year=2012-04-21 | title=Croydon circumcision campaigner caught with child porn videos | url=http: //www.thisiscroydontoday.co.uk/Croydon-circumcision-campaigner-caught-child-porn/story-15866127-detail/story.html | accessdate=2012-04-22}} [http://circleaks.org/images/2/27/Www.thisiscroydontoday.co.uk-Croydon-circumcision-campaigner-caught-child-porn-s.pdf Archive 2012-04-21]circlist</ref><ref name="malta">{{REFnews | last=Kay | first=Richard | coauthors= | url= | title=Sex scandal rocks Order of the Knights | date=2012-04-25 | publisher=GlamEntertainment | quote=http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2134978/David-Cameron-son-PM-wife-Samantha-unveil-church-tribute-son-Ivan.html | accessdate=2012-04-26 | work = MailOnline

</ref> It is important to note that Quaintance and Morris are both proud members and promoters of [[Gilgal Society]] and [[Circlist]], which openly admit to a morbid fascination with circumcision to the point of sado-masochistic fetish. Morris has included CircList as a resource in a recent paper,<ref>{{cite journal | title = Male Circumcision: An Appraisal of Current Instrumentation | journal = InTech | date = 2011-08 | first = Brian J. | last = Morris | coauthors = Chris Eley | pages = 1-40 | id = | url = http://www.intechopen.com/articles/show/title/male-circumcision-an-appraisal-of-current-instrumentation | accessdate = 2011-09-17}}</ref> and Quaintance is both the head of [[Gilgal Society]], and head moderator at [[Circlist]]. [[Vernon G. Quaintance|Vernon Quaintance]] was recently arrested for child pornography.<ref name="pedophile">{{cite news | title = Croydon circumcision campaigner caught with child porn videos | date = 2012-04-21 | url = http://www.thisiscroydontoday.co.uk/Croydon-circumcision-campaigner-caught-child-porn/story-15866127-detail/story.html | work = Croydon Advertiser | accessdate = 2012-04-22}} Archive 2012-04-21: http://circleaks.org/images/2/27/Www.thisiscroydontoday.co.uk-Croydon-circumcision-campaigner-caught-child-porn-s.pdf</ref><ref name="malta">{{cite news | first = Richard | last = Kay | title = Sex scandal rocks Order of the Knights | date = 2012-04-25 | publisher = GlamEntertainment | url = http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2134978/David-Cameron-son-PM-wife-Samantha-unveil-church-tribute-son-Ivan.html | work = MailOnline | accessdate = 2012-04-26}} Archive (2012-04-27): http://circleaks.org/images/6/66/Quaintance-disrupts-the-church%28malta%29.pdfArchive (2012-04-27)]</ref>

 {{Quote boxCitation |title Title= Interview with Daniel Halperin |tstyle = text-align: left; |quote Text= '''Moderator''' Obviously, when you do a web search for good info on circumcision, one generally comes up with a ton of anti-circ sites. Do you know of any pro-circumcision sites?

  :* http://www.users.dircon.co.uk/~vernon/ICIRC/ [[File:Vernon_Website_2000_referred_by_Halperin.pdf]] :* http://www-personal.usyd.edu.au/~bmorris/circumcision.shtml [[File:Brian_Morris_Website_from_2000_referred_by_Halperin.pdf]] :* http://www.circumcisioninfo.com :* http://www.circlist.org| Author= |source Source= <small>-- [http://www.circumcisioninformation.com/halperin_inverview1.htm circumcisioninformation.com] | lang=| before=| after=| Transcription=| Translation=| ref=<ref> {{cite news | first = Gordy REFnews | last = Slack | title first= The Case For Circumcision Gordy | date coauthors= 2000-05-19 | url = http://www.eastbayexpress.com/archive/051900/cover1_051900.html | work title= The Guardian Case For Circumcision | accessdate date= 2000-1105-16 19 | publisher=The Guardian | quote = I ask Halperin whether his being Jewish factors into his work on circumcision... | accessdate=2000-11-16}}</ref></small> |align = center |width = 55% |quoted = yes

On May 28th 2010, at the UNC School of Medicine, Halperin lectured on "Moyels without Borders?: Barriers to Scale-up of Circumcision" <ref>{{cite webREFweb | last=Halperin | first=Daniel | year=2010-05-28 | title=Moyels without Borders?: Barriers to Scale-up of Circumcision (and Some Reflections on the Track Record of Other HIV Prevention Approaches) | url = http://www.med.unc.edu/www/events/moyels-without-borders-barriers-to-scale-up-of-circumcision-and-some-reflections-on-the-track-record-of-other-hiv-prevention-approaches | title = "Moyels without Borders?: Barriers to Scale-up of Circumcision (and Some Reflections on the Track Record of Other HIV Prevention Approaches)" | accessdate = 2011-03-11 | last = Halperin | first = Daniel | date = 2010-05-28

{{Quote boxCitation |title Title= |tstyle = text-align: left; |quote Text= No. At least it didn't during the first couple of years I was doing research. I didn't think about the Jewish part at all. I'd vaguely heard about a guy in Boston who does a non-cutting ritual bris, and maybe that would have appealed to me, if I had a boy someday. But in recent years the Judaism aspect has crept in now and then. Some [non-Jewish and typically uncircumcised] doctors, for example, an oncologist in northeastern Brazil who has to amputate cancerous penises every week, would tell me not knowing that I was Jewish, 'Those Jews were so smart; thousands of years ago they figured out this way to prevent health problems.' That was one of the things that began to spin my head around from thinking of this as a savage ritual from the dark past to thinking of it as maybe a kind of health/cultural innovation ahead ofits time... So I guess it has made me appreciate my own heritage more. And who knows, maybe finding out to my surprise that my own granddad was an occasional mohel was a weird kind of confirmation that I'm maybe in some small way 'destined' to help pass along this health benefit to people in parts of the world where it could really make a difference and perhaps save many lives. |source Author= <small>-- Daniel Halperin. | Source=| lang=| before=| after=| Transcription=| Translation=| ref=<ref> {{cite news | first = Gordy REFnews | last = Slack | title first= The Case For Circumcision Gordy | date coauthors= 2000-05-19 | url = http://www.eastbayexpress.com/archive/051900/cover1_051900.html | work title= The Guardian Case For Circumcision | accessdate date= 2000-1105-16 19 | publisher=The Guardian | quote = I ask Halperin whether his being Jewish factors into his work on circumcision... | accessdate=2000-11-16}}</ref></small> |align = center |width = 55% |quoted = yes}}

{{Quote boxCitation |title = |tstyle Title= text-align: left; |quote Text= I'm from California - I believe in things being natural; I don't like surgical interventions. But now, yes, I would - although I'd have it done the Jewish way. |source Author= <small>-- Daniel Halperin. | Source=| lang=| before=| after=| Transcription=| Translation=| ref=<ref> {{cite news | first = Alex REFnews | last = Renton | title first= So, would you have your son circumcised? Alex | date coauthors= 2009-07-05 | url = http://www.guardian.co.uk/lifeandstyle/2009/jul/05/circumcicision-health-children?intcmp=239 | work title= The Guardian So, would you have your son circumcised? | accessdate date= 20122009-0207-25 05 | publisher=The Guardian | quote = I'm from California - I believe in things being natural... | accessdate=2012-02-25 }}</ref></small> |align = center |width = 55% |quoted = yes

{{Quote boxCitation |title Title= |tstyle = text-align: left; |quote Text= Don't you dare write that I think foreskins cause AIDS epidemics, any more than mosquitoes cause malaria. Mosquitoes are necessary for malaria, but not sufficient. You need all these cofactors to get an explosive AIDS epidemic, including foreskins. |source Author=Daniel Halperin| Source=Express Online| lang=| before=| after=| Transcription=| Translation=| ref= <smallref>-- Daniel Halperin. [http://circleaks.org/images/3/32/Edgar_Schoen_%26_Daniel_Halperin_%281999-2000%29.pdf Slack, G. (2000, November 16). The case for circumcision . , ''Express Online'',.]</smallref> |align = center |width = 55% |quoted = yes

{{Quote boxCitation |title Title= |tstyle = text-align: left; |quote Text= Circumcision is too human, too 'soft'.| Author=Daniel Halperin| Source='Express Online| lang=| before=| after=| Transcription= |source Translation=| ref= <smallref>-- Daniel Halperin. [http://circleaks.org/images/3/32/Edgar_Schoen_%26_Daniel_Halperin_%281999-2000%29.pdf Slack, G. (2000, November 16). The case for circumcision . , ''Express Online,''.]</smallref> |align = center |width = 55% |quoted = yes

{{Quote boxCitation |title Title= |tstyle = text-align: left; |quote Text= It's as if you went to a lung-cancer resource center and they had nothing at all about cigarettes. What the hell is going on? Why is everyone ignoring the elephant-sized foreskin in the living room? |source Author=Daniel Halperin| Source=Express Online| lang=| before=| after=| Transcription=| Translation=| ref= <smallref>-- Daniel Halperin. [http://circleaks.org/images/3/32/Edgar_Schoen_%26_Daniel_Halperin_%281999-2000%29.pdf Slack, G. (2000, November 16). The case for circumcision . , ''Express Online'',].</smallref> |align = center |width = 55% |quoted = yes

==See Also=={{SEEALSO}}*[[Circlist]] -- Halperin endorses Circlist.*[[Gilgal Society]] -- Halperin helped create a Gilgal brochure.*[[Robert C. Bailey]] -- Colleague & Benefactor of Halperin.*[[Edgar J. Schoen]] -- Colleague & Benefactor of Halperin.*[[Brian J. Morris]] -- Colleague & Benefactor of Halperin.*[[Thomas E. Wiswell]] -- Colleague & Benefactor of Halperin.*[[Jake H. Waskett]] -- Benefactor of Halperin.*[[World Health Organization]] -- The WHO endorses Halperin's ''research''.*[[Bias]] -- Read about circumcision bias.

==External Links=={{LINKS}}*[http://www.circumcisioninformation.com/halperin_inverview1.htm Halperin links to Circlist] -- Endorsing Circlist and [[Vernon Quaintance]]'s website.